LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

with them under the provisions of this article. All such cer-
tificates shall be opened to public inspection.

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42. Except in cases provided for by section 46, and cases of
special elections to fill vacancies in office caused by death, res-
ignation or otherwise, such certificates of nomination shall be
filed, respectively, with the Secretary of State not less than
twenty days, and with the Boards of Supervisors of Elections
not less than ten days before the day of election.

When to be
filed.

43. Not less than eighteen days before an election to fill any
public office, the Secretary of State shall certify to the super-
visors of elections of each county, within which any of the
voters may, by law, vote for candidates for such office, the
name and description of each person nominated for such office,
as specified in the . certificates of nominatian filed with the
Secretary of State, and shall certify the same to the Super-
visors of Elections of Baltimore city, if any of the voters of
said city may, by law, vote for candidates for such office.

Secretary of
State to
certify
names of
nominees.

44. At least eight days before an election to fill any public
office, the supervisors of elections of each county and of the
city of Baltimore, shall cause to be published in two or more
newspapers within such county, and in all the daily papers pub-
lished in said city, which will publish the same at their current
rates for advertising, the nominations to office which have then
been filed with or certified to them under the provisions of this
article. If in any county there be but one newspaper pub-
lished, publication in such one newspaper shall be sufficient.
They shall make not less than two such publications in each of
such newspapers before the day of election, and one of such
publications in each newspaper shall be upon the last day upon
which said newspaper is issued before the day of election.
Such publication shall be made in newspapers devoted to the
dissemination of general news, and the two newspapers selected
shall, if possible, represent the political parties which at the
last preceding election casted the largest and next largest num-
ber of votes. The list of nominations published by the super-
visors of elections shall be arranged, so far as practicable, in
the order and form in which they are to be printed upon the
ballots.

List of nomi-
nations to
be pub-
lished.

45. Whenever any person nominated for public office, as in
this article provided, shall, at least ten days before election, in
a writing signed by him and acknowledged before a justice of
the peace, or if he be out of the State at the time, before a

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Declination
of nomina-
tion.